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Microsoft Exchange and Peek - It can be done!

Peek doesn’t have native MS Exchange support yet, but that does’nt mean that our Peek system can’t access your Exchange email.  The first thing you’ll need to do is find out if your Exchange Server is setup with POP3 access (SSL/No TLS).  If it is, chances are we can access your Email right now! Now, if it’s not enabled, you are going to have to talk to your IT department and have them enable POP3 access.

Here is my favorite cookie recipe to “help” with the conversation:

http://cookbookjunkie.blogspot.com/2005/10/my-favorite-oatmeal-cookie-recipe.html

Now once you convince the IT department to enable POP3, they need to set it up so it does not use TLS.  Basic authentication is the best way to set it up initially and then we can enable SSL for extra safety. Take a look at the screenshot to help guide your IT department.  After your MS Exchange is setup with POP3 access all you need to do is call our customer care at 1-877-677-7335 and give them your POP3 domain and SMTP server settings (which you should also get from your IT department) and then they will have you add your MS Exchange email account to your Peek and that’s it.

We have enabled a bunch of customers so give it a try! We can work with your IT department to help you get POP3 going.

6 Comments

1. I found your blog on google and read a few of your other posts. I just added you to my Google News Reader. Keep up the good work. Look forward to reading more from you in the future.

   Comment by Dan Waldron — November 17, 2008 @ 10:16 am

2. Tis true,Gabe is the man - took him less time to work out how to get it working than our ISP to respond to our first request

   Comment by klokman — November 17, 2008 @ 1:09 pm

3. I got tired of waiting for my IT department to get back to me, so I just set up an extra e-mail address on Gmail and set a rule in Outlook online to forward all of my e-mails to it and leave a copy in my inbox. Then I set my Peek up to retrieve mail from this second e-mail address. Works like a charm!

   Comment by Carter — November 17, 2008 @ 4:00 pm

4. I have to ask, why didn’t you guys just build in imap support in your backend? If I am understanding it right, your backend queries the servers for the mail and the peak unit queries your servers to get the mail you have retrieved. If you had IMAP you would support most every exchange installation out there as well as nearly every other mail server product.

   POP3 is a terrible protocol, it was dated two years after it became RFCd, ten years ago

   Comment by porovaara — November 17, 2008 @ 10:21 pm

5. We do have IMAP support in the Peek back-end. Turns out that most providers use POP3 and E-mail administrators understand it. Maybe POP3 isn’t the best protocol but it seems to be widely used and understood.

   Comment by gabe — November 18, 2008 @ 8:28 am

6. Funny that the screenshot is an imap connector yet the article talks about pop3. Imap is a much much better option honestly because it will “sync” your message so that when you read them on your device they are tagged on the server as read and you dont have to manage your email from multiple places.

   I am assuming that peek supports the full imap implementation so this should work fine and allow you to be more effective. Get your IT department to enable IMAP and if they dont understand IMAP get a new IT department.

   Another Note:
   Syncing directly with exchange is a bit much for peek. Peek needs to work on syncing with OWA (outlook web access) not directly to exchange. There is a gpl application called “evolution” which is an email client for linux that syncs to exchange via OWA.

   Comment by dave — November 22, 2008 @ 3:25 pm

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